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NYC Race Focuses On Income Gap, but How Much Can a Mayor Do?

November 4, 2013

"Great as New York is, it is not actually the federal government," RPA senior fellow Julia Vitullo-Martin told NPR's All Things Considered. The mayor "does not control the Federal Reserve, much less taxation and trade policy," Vitullo-Martin said. "And it is very hard for a local jurisdiction to redistribute income." See the full story.